Senior DevOps Engineer – Cloud & CI/CD Lead

About the role

Ascensus is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to provide technical leadership and architectural direction for DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud‑native practices across multiple agile teams. The role blends strategic oversight with hands‑on problem solving, helping teams ship software faster and more reliably.

Key responsibilities

• Provide architectural oversight and technical direction for DevOps, CI/CD, and platform engineering across several scrum teams.
• Partner with application and program architects to align DevOps solutions with business strategy.
• Define and evolve standards for build, deployment, infrastructure, and environment management.
• Design and implement automated CI/CD pipelines, including build, test, release, and deployment workflows.
• Create Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions for provisioning and managing environments.
• Embed security and compliance controls directly into pipelines (DevSecOps).
• Drive adoption of containerized, cloud‑native architectures using Kubernetes‑based platforms.
• Ensure platforms meet scalability, resiliency, performance, and cost‑efficiency standards.
• Provide Level‑3 support for complex production incidents and improve observability, monitoring, and alerting.
• Mentor and coach engineers on DevOps practices, tools, and architectural decisions.

Required profile

• Hands‑on technical leader comfortable operating at both strategic and tactical levels.
• Proven experience providing architectural oversight for DevOps and CI/CD initiatives.
• Ability to mentor and coach engineering teams and promote a culture of automation and continuous improvement.

Required skills

• Kubernetes
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• CI/CD pipeline design and implementation
• Source control and branching strategies (e.g., Git)
• DevSecOps practices
• Automation and scripting
• Monitoring, observability, and alerting tools

What we offer

• Opportunity to shape DevOps strategy across a leading technology platform.
• Collaborative environment with cross‑functional teams.
• Access to cutting‑edge cloud and container technologies.